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Letters Quiet places | Wombat faeces | String quartets and pop | Downticks Reader Michael Cunningham is reassured by the interest in the shape of wombat faeces, having done some niche research himself. Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy Reader Michael Cunningham is reassured by the interest in the shape of wombat faeces, having done some niche research himself. Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy Mon 1 Feb 2021 11.43 EST Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 12.24 EST Perhaps your article 10 of the most tranquil places in the UK (31 January) could have been be more aptly titled “Where you used to find peace and solitude before we published this”. Quiet please indeed. ....
(3 out of 5 stars) I ve been able so far to remain immune of the Gojilov disease - it hasn t struck Europe as hard as it has the Americas. This collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, dating back from 1996, is one of the events that made him hot stuff in town. I ve been listening to recordings of The Kronos Quartet - they were the early champions of those crossover experiences that had them either playing arrangements of Jazz (Thelonius Monk Monk Suite, Bill Evans Music of Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman in White Man Sleeps, John Lurie and John Zorn in Kronos Quartet : Winter Was Hard) or pop (Hendrix Purple Haze in Kronos Quartet: Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nuncarrow, Hendrix), or commission works by World-Music composers (see my review of Pieces of Africa), or by classically-trained composers inspired by Folk and World-music. Some of the encounters have been merely entertaining but unsubstantial, some others have yielded what I consider to be masterpieces in the genre, infus ....